Numerical Experiments for Nuclear Flashes toward Superbursts in an Accreting Neutron Star

Figure 2

Temperature distributions for 𝑀̇=3×10⁻¹⁰𝑀_⊙yr⁻¹ in the initial state (lower dotted line) and to the stage of the maximum 𝐿_n (solid line). The dashed line is the ignition curve (𝑌=0.1) and the upper dotted line indicates that 𝜏_dyn=𝜏_3𝛼.